Through the Magpie Eye: Mint Buildings

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20.09.2013

A modernist church with a dark, sweeping tent-like roof over rough stone walls, topped by a small cross

I don’t know much about architecture, but I’d like to think I know a mint building when I see it. Are these brutalist? Modernist? Futurist? Who knows? Are they mint? Most definitely.

Pictures courtesy of a 1964 issue of Discovering Art Magazine.

A church with white parabolic vaulted roofs, an entrance canopy and a separate tapering lattice bell tower

A tall blank-faced stone slab block raised on angled concrete legs, with a long curved block of windows behind

A low domed arena with a ribbed concrete roof held up by a ring of Y-shaped buttresses, lamp posts in front

A tower block whose wider upper floors jut out on slanting concrete struts, rising above city rooftops

A low glass-fronted building under a flat roof held on slender curved white columns, on open ground

A slim, tapering white skyscraper above a low modern block, with an ornate stone building beside it

Twin slab towers beside a low dome and an upturned bowl on a long flat base, with a ramp up to the roof

A white building of stacked curving bands widening towards the top, with cars parked in the street in front

A white chapel with a heavy upturned concrete roof, thick walls pierced by small scattered windows and a round tower

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